Gilman v. Osborn

OPINION

CARMODY, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the trial court setting aside an earlier quiet title decree and quieting the title to an undivided mineral interest in the plaintiffs below.

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

We will attempt to summarize the rather involved factual and legal situation: In 1928, one'Bates conveyed'the mineral'interest here involved to R. F. “Gillman”; the-deed Was recorded, and in 1957 was discovered in a safe which had belonged to R. F. “Gilman” b.y his widow some nineteen years after his death. In the intervening…